DAY 23

First of all, I want to thank our anonymous gifter today! We are honored and touched by your generosity. Your gift came as a huge surprise and is greatly appreciated by our family during this hardship. Thank you doesn't seem enough....but THANK YOU....from all of us in the Duarte family.

As for Faith, she is still staying strong. She has opened her eyes for a few minutes at a time. It is always so wonderful to see her big, beautiful brown eyes looking at us. Makes my heart melt.

She is recovering faster from this bleed as she is almost back to the settings she was at prior to it. The doctor was just in and is pleased at her progress, however still has no plan for how to deal with her stomach. They believe the bloating is due to blood clots being in the abdomen. If so, it is time that will break those clots and allow them to be reabsorbed into the body. Surgery will be in here tomorrow to change her wound-vac and look at her intestines and will hopefully allow for a plan to be made. It is frustrating for them to not have answers and without answers...it is hard to know the right thing to do.

The other concern at the moment is a growing redness around her neck and upper chest area. The area is warm, so the concern is an infection. They don't feel she is stable enough to go down for a CT today, but are planning on one tomorrow to look at a possible cause for it. Obviously they would like to know what it is in order to treat it effectively.

Tomorrow will be a busy day, so I will wait until evening to post so that I can be armed with information (hopefully :) ). Have a great day.